Posts: 1429 From: Vancouver, WA, USA Registered: Feb 2012
posted 09-15-2025 07:59 PM
Does anyone know where I can find (hopefully online) a map of the Apollo 15's lunar module Falcon's flight path through the Apennine Mountains during its descent to Hadley Base?
oly Member
Posts: 1508 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2015
Posts: 591 From: London, England Registered: May 2001
posted 09-18-2025 06:35 AM
Not a map, but an enhanced video of the 16mm landing footage
oly Member
Posts: 1508 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2015
posted 09-19-2025 05:50 AM
Cool video showing the Apollo 15 landing from "High Gate" to touchdown. It would be cool to see an extended version showing the LM passing over the mountains.
Blackarrow Member
Posts: 3884 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 09-19-2025 11:27 AM
With, I think, the exception of Apollo 11, the 16mm cameras in the LMs was only switched on at or about "pitch-over" when the crew gained their first proper view of the surface and the planned landing-site. As the LM was flying "face up" from engine ignition, any extended movie footage on Apollo 15 could not have shown the mountains beneath, at least not until pitch-over.
Headshot Member
Posts: 1429 From: Vancouver, WA, USA Registered: Feb 2012
posted 09-19-2025 11:30 AM
Thank you so much for that copy of the map. It is exactly what I needed. What document is it from? I thought I had done a thorough search of the ALSJ.
Paul78zephyr Member
Posts: 820 From: Hudson, MA Registered: Jul 2005
posted 09-27-2025 04:43 PM
I always chuckle when listening to the Apollo 15 landing when Scott says:
Okay Houston the Falcon is on the plain at Hadley.
...when what he should have said was:
Okay Houston the Falcon is on the plain at Palus Putredinis.
posted 09-15-2025 07:59 PM
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